Burning Gotham
Burning Gotham

Burning Gotham

The WallBreakers

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New York 1835: A City at its tipping point. It’s ten years since the completion of the Erie Canal. New York City’s population is now over 270,000. Most of these people live below Fourteenth Street in wooden or brick buildings no taller than five stories. The gap between rich and poor is rapidly expanding as each week thousands of new men and women pour onto New York’s dangerously overcrowded streets. Many come to earn an honest living. Others for more nefarious reasons. Several historical lives converge in this scripted audio fiction series about the fastest growing city in the world, and the opportunists who shaped it.

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This Week — Burning Gotham 1830s NYC Walking Tour and Webinar
DEC 4, 2023
This Week — Burning Gotham 1830s NYC Walking Tour and Webinar

Hey everyone! James Scully here. I’m doing a webinar and walking tour this week in conjunction with the audio fiction soap opera set in 1835 NYC I've developed called Burning Gotham — http://burninggotham.com/

The walking tours have been very popular. I'm doing one this coming Saturday 12/09/2023 in Lower Manhattan with Eyes on Manhattan at 1PM — https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/eyesonmanhattan/items/506819/calendar/2023/12/?flow=no&full-items=yes

And for those who can't come and are interested in this wild period of U.S. and NYC history, I'm doing a webinar with the New York Adventure Club this Friday 12/08/2023 at 5:30PM eastern time — https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/1830s-nyc-a-decade-of-social-political-geographical-upheaval-webinar-registration-752806914747/

Also, next Saturday, December 16th, is the 188th anniversary of the Great Fire of 1835. It burned the entire financial district to the ground under very interesting circumstances. I’ll have two tours that day.

Included here are links where you can buy tickets to all of these. This week’s webinar is $10 and Saturday’s walking tour is $35 — https://linktr.ee/thewallbreakers

I'd love to see you there!

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This Week — Burning Gotham 1830s NYC Walking Tour and Webinar
SEP 19, 2023
This Week — Burning Gotham 1830s NYC Walking Tour and Webinar

Hi everyone! I'm (James Scully) doing a webinar and walking tour this week in conjunction with an audio fiction soap opera set in 1835 NYC I've developed called Burning Gotham — http://burninggotham.com/

The walking tours have been very popular. I'm doing one this coming Sunday 9/24/2023 in Lower Manhattan, NYC with the New York Adventure Club at 12PM — https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/exploring-1830s-new-york-from-the-great-fire-to-south-street-seaport-registration-705407632217/

And for those who can't attend but are interested in this wild period of U.S. and NYC history, I'm doing a webinar with the same organization this Thursday 9/21/2023 at 5:30PM eastern time — https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/1830s-nyc-a-decade-of-social-political-geographical-upheaval-webinar-registration-695345927387/

I'd love to see you there!

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